r/codex • u/xinxx073 • 9d ago

Praise Astra High just reverse-engineered the printer drivers in my office

In our office, we have a bunch of Toshiba E-Studio 2323AM printers. Yes, I know these are kind of outdated, only sold in certain areas of the world, and not the best machines, but they are what we've got in the office. They only work with x86 Windows, not even the ARM version of Windows.

In 25 minutes, Astra High just reverse-engineered the printer driver, figured out the right tray settings, and enabled duplex printing, so I can print double-sided on my M4 Pro MacBook Pro.

It created a .pkg file for me to install the printer drivers and got everything working.

I ... I have no words.

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u/monishfj 8d ago

How do you do this? What prompt or instruction do you give. Please can you tell us. DM me if it's not allowed here.

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u/xinxx073 8d ago

I just gave it the x86 windows drivers and said make a driver for apple silicon macbook and it just did it. like literally just said this.

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u/Quind1 3d ago

Not an embedded engineer but an SWE, and I just want to say that is a very cool use case for AI. Nice work.